"What I'm doing is buying 250 video cameras and players and dividing them up, giving 125 of them to Palestinian children, 125 to Israeli kids, so they can make movies about their own lives--not dramas, just little documentaries about who they are and what they believe in, who their parents are, where they go to school, what they had to eat, what movies they watch, what CDs they listen to--and then exchange the videos. That's the kind of thing that can be effective, I think, in simply making people understand that there aren't that many differences that divide Israelis from Palestinians--not as human beings, anyway."

I was just talking about this movie with my 12 y/o today; she heard an ad on the radio and wanted to know what it's about. I told her, and she thought it was very sad. She didn't understand why people hated each other in the Middle East. I told her it's because the Israeli's and the Palestinian's have trouble seeing each other as human beings with the same needs and desires, no matter what side of the border they're living on. Then I read the above to her and told her this was just the beginning of the project and maybe it'll expand, so that kids in the Middle East today will grow up understanding each other and seeing they're just like each other rather than hating each other--she said "that's cool!"

Love, LL